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Top Highbrow Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 320
102 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
103 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 27
104 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 375
105 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 115
106 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 314
107 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 109
108 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 17
109 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 67
110 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 53
111 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 409
112 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 356
113 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 206
114 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 140
115 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 222
116 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
117 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 333
118 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 299
119 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 257
120 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 295
121 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 402
122 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 165
123 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 141
124 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 225
125 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 455
126 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 247
127 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 174
128 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 253
129 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 150
130 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 249
131 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 22
132 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 273
133 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 379
134 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 494
135 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
136 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 343
137 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 58
138 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 501
139 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 282
140 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 463
141 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 407
142 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 41
143 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 372
144 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 194
145 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 153
146 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 151
147 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 286
148 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 552
149 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 608
150 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 523
151 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
152 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 154
153 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 168
154 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 438
155 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 137
156 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 382
157 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 213
158 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 159
159 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 632
160 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 130
161 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
162 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 34
163 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 263
164 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 272
165 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 106
166 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 414
167 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 400
168 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 193
169 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 542
170 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 545
171 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 260
172 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 259
173 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 466
174 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 285
175 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 547
176 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 92
177 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 243
178 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 347
179 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 362
180 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 26
181 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 364
182 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 229
183 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 427
184 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 354
185 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 116
186 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 232
187 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 398
188 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 202
189 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 146
190 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 82
191 Shane 1953 George Stevens 162
192 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 207
193 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 211
194 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 136
195 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 549
196 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 432
197 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 297
198 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 230
199 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 629
200 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 604
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